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Date: Aug-14-2009
Make plans to celebrate Labor Day With summer winding down, it’s time once again to start thinking about Labor Day. Celebrations of the American worker are held in various sites...
State AFL-CIO chief:‘We’re losing a helluva lot of members’ – now’s time to push labor’s goals
Date: Aug-14-2009
SAULT STE. MARIE – If the nation needs a guide to understanding and fixing the ongoing economic Great Recession, as it’s being called, look to what happened in the years...
Without compromise, prospects dim in ’09 for EFCA passage
Date: Aug-14-2009
While organized labor leaders continue to push for passage this year of the Employee Free Choice Act – which is expected to ease the organizing process for unions and help...
Businesses with house in order 'have nothing to fear' from EFCA
Date: Aug-03-2009
In a recent edition of Newsweek, a small business owner named Kevin Kelly opined that our nation would, indeed, be better off if we were devoid of any and all labor...
Employment numbers continue to be a downer
Date: Aug-03-2009
Michigan, once again, leads the nation in total unemployment (15.2 percent) according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers released July 17. (No state since West Virginia in 1984 had...
First half of 2009 shows immense drop in construction activity
Date: Aug-03-2009
Overall U.S. construction activity in the 12 months leading up to June 2009 dropped 27 percent compared to the same period through June 2008, according to a July 21 report...
Much, much better working space set for the A2 Municipal Center
Date: Aug-03-2009
ANN ARBOR - A few things have changed in the law enforcement and justice system since the building now housing the city's police and courts was built in 1963. Well,...
Obama supporting, not yet pushing, Employee Free Choice Act
Date: Aug-03-2009
(PAI) – Top union leaders, headed by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and Change To Win Chair Anna Burger, discussed health care and the Employee Free Choice Act in a...
Scrubbers, SCRs will further clean the air at Detroit Edison's Monroe Power Plant
Date: Aug-03-2009
MONROE – Detroit Edison has reached a milestone in a decade-long project to install state-of-the-art emissions control equipment at its Monroe Power Plant. The first of two flue-gas desulfurization systems...
Solis to unionists: go out to push for Employee Free Choice Act
Date: Aug-03-2009
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is telling unionists they will have to go out and push for the Employee Free Choice Act, but with a promise of verbal...